What Now? AdBlue in the Diesel Tank in Frodsham
Everything hinges on one detail: whether the engine has been run after the AdBlue was added — far more than anything else. If it has not, keep it that way, whether the car is in Frodsham itself or out in Newtown. Phone 0333 366 0103 with your key and engine still off. Across Frodsham, such a case is generally emptied and cleaned where it stands. If it has run, stop as soon as it is safe then switch off. Step one stays unchanged, even though the work is bigger.
Find the situation below that matches yours, wherever in Cheshire it happened.
At the petrol pump around Frodsham: AdBlue in a diesel
Just now, nozzle yet in your hand, it dawns on you that the cap you took off was the wrong one, right at the pump. Whether Texaco, North West Fuels or somewhere else around Frodsham, the situation is the same.
The upshot: of all places to find out, the forecourt is the best. The AdBlue is in the tank and nowhere else. Nothing has pulled it in.
Next: resist the urge to fire it up just to free up the petrol pump. A few jobs: a push into a space with the staff helping, the bottle kept, and a ring to us from the forecourt. Can't move the car beside the petrol pump? Our explosion-proof equipment makes a live forecourt sensible, and so it can be drained where it is.
At home around Frodsham with AdBlue in your diesel tank
The warning light had been on for days. Bought a bottle, tipped it in outside the house, recycled the empty — and only then looked at the cap a second time, after the fact. Right off Hill View Mews is no less likely from any other place.
What it means: if you have not driven since, this is nearly as good as the forecourt. Diesel and AdBlue stay apart: the AdBlue settles to the base of your tank and remains put, no matter how long the night.
Next: prevent an early drive by keeping your keys in the house, then phone us. Marsh Green or Frodsham: whichever your drive sits, that's where it gets cleared. Even at night, the pumps are quiet enough for a residential street.
Set off with AdBlue in a diesel in Frodsham?
Filled up, pulled away, and soon your engine was turning unevenly, blowing smoke, losing power, or flashing up the dash. Main Street, say, or the way towards Chester — a run of under 10 miles.
Put simply: the AdBlue has been sucked into your fuel system. Through your filter, through the lines, and — the further the mileage — on into the high-pressure pump and each injector. Each mile and each restart takes it further.
Pull in somewhere safe — that is the first job — then turn it off. Leave at the first junction — not the services beyond — if you are on the M56, under a mile from Frodsham. No test restarts: clearing itself is not something AdBlue does. Call us and say how far you travelled.
AdBlue in the wrong tank: hire, lease and company vehicles
A week back, it was new to you. Your own car either has no AdBlue or keeps it somewhere different, so no one told you the AdBlue inlet was just beside the diesel. Wherever you happen to be across Cheshire, any driver can be caught.
Put simply: an extra step on top of the situations above, which depend on whether it has run. Plenty of hire and company agreements want the owner to approve work on the car.
Next: ring the hire company or the fleet manager first, and then us — settling it before we arrive is faster. Waiting for an answer at the car park at the nearest station, or beside Main Street Community Church? Leave your engine off throughout.
AdBlue in your diesel tank? Not sure, in Frodsham
"I think so" is sometimes as honest as it gets. The bottle is lighter than it should be, there is a faint smell of ammonia round the filler, and you cannot remember which cap you took off. Perhaps it happened in a hurry at the school gates at St Luke's Catholic Primary School, or on a friend's drive in Bradley.
What it means: a little spilled about your filler does no harm to your engine. In the diesel tank, however, AdBlue damages it. Turning on the car cannot tell you which, and if there is AdBlue in your tank it will draw it in.
Do this: behave as though it did, and never start the motor. Describe what you noticed on your phone. A clean tank looked at counts as a happier outcome than an already-run one drained.
Frodsham: what every AdBlue drain has in common
The work opens the same way, whichever your case. Forecourt, driveway, The Queens Head's car park or a street beside Frodsham Town Council — the van reaches the vehicle, and three questions come next: what liquid, which amount, and if it ran. On the phone, ahead of dispatch, you are told our price, and those replies shape the job too.
AdBlue crystallises and eats at some metals in fuel systems, and so it won't rinse out unaided; that is why a full flush, after the drain, matters much more here than with petrol. Finally come the fuel filter, cleaned or renewed as needed; clean diesel; and a test of your vehicle. Most unstarted vehicles are a half-hour job after the moment our engineers get there.
Finally, our engineers start the car. Before our technicians go, it is checked to confirm it runs smoothly on clean diesel. Lasting damage is very uncommon if it's caught quickly, and the whole job is done where the car is. For your insurer: an engineer's report and the VAT invoice. For you: payment on the day, nothing in advance. Many insurance policies include misfuelling cover, and so it's worth checking yours whilst we're on the way.
About Frodsham itself
Frodsham is a town in north Cheshire, situated on the estuary of the River Mersey, with Marsh Green and Netherton to the north and Overton to the south. Frodsham has a population of around 8370 people and is characterized by semi-detached housing. Frodsham is located near the city of Chester, approximately 9.9 miles to the south, and is about 165.1 miles northwest of London. Frodsham's coastal setting at an elevation of 12 metres gives it a distinctive landscape.
AdBlue drains across Cheshire, Frodsham included
Being a coastal town, Frodsham shares its vans with the surrounding towns — Overton, Netherton — right across WA postcodes. Quickest of all: a WA6 7 postcode to show where you stand.
Centre of Frodsham or a lay-by towards Marshlands Tree Garden: wherever it is, the vehicle doesn't need to move an inch for the drain. Wherever it stands, that is where it gets drained. Awkward to explain? By Brook Stone or a border? Checking beats guessing, and so ring.
Your situation, in one line
Still unrun? Keep it off and ring. Started by now? Pull over, turn off, phone. Petrol in Diesel handles the remainder whichever it is, in Frodsham and Cheshire, on 0333 366 0103.